If its anything to go by, this organisation put on the 2007 and 2009 Milan world championships

Rome World Cup heritage

Italian sports organization Pedali di Marca has placed a bid for the 2029 Cyclocross World Championships 🌈 The Italian venue will be announced later, but would be in Veneto 🇮🇹

The other candidates are
Benidorm 🇪🇸
Debrecen/Budapest 🇭🇺

The venue will be announced on Thursday by the UCI

e spoke with US Cyclocross champion Vida Lopez De San Roman in Crans Montana after she won silver in the U23 XCO race! She’s excited to hit the cross season after the MTB season.
However, Ian Ackert has decided to drop cross and focus on MTB👇
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A day at VermontCrossCamp!!

We made a movie! Four years on the road with EuroCrossAcademy, getting into the trenches of cyclocross development.
ECA: Hammers in the Forge is out on youtube!

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After 8 seasons at the top of U.S. racing, Katie Clouse has retired. Following a 13th at the World Championships, Clouse reached out to multiple sponsors. Unfortunately, all talks fell through, after which she decided to end an impressive career.
Full interview:
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Cyclocross at the Winter Olympics? Here is the latest!
(free for everyone)
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Inside Cyclocross #31 The cyclocross season is over, and so is Sanne Cant's career. This week we reflect on her monumental career, as well as several other stories!

Special attention for the retirement of Sanne Cant in this weeks inside cyclocross with a long read on her career!
We also cover a bid for the 2029 Belgian Championships and Iserbyt’s premature season end

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Flamanville has placed a bid for the 2027 European Cyclocross Championships. The 2025 and 2026 events will be held in Middelkerke and Zeddam respectively
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The latest news from inside cyclocross 👇
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Your are obviously right that atm the money is mainly in Belgium. The sport however needs to expand, and i do think there is potential. France deserves a second round. North Spain, UK and Hungary also seem like they would be successful

Its not much of a world cup with 7 races in Belgium. The idea of bringing more riders to that area is noble, but wont work without money. More races away from home is less incentive for sponsors to finance that

This wasn’t a call to bring back the American world cups, although i think there is still some potential in early November. Its pointing out that the idea to “increase rounds to visit more countries” has horribly failed

The US races disappeared for a variety of reasons, but wouldn’t really fit in this world cup due to it starting in November. Broader problem is that, despite big words, there are barely any new events in Europe

Some overarching thoughts on the 2025 cyclocross world championships 👇
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Compare now to the world cup pre 2020 reform. The number of races has gone from 9 to 12, but all growth has gone to Belgian races. The number of non Dutch/Belgian WC has been increased from 3 to 4, but there are no North American WC anymore. Number of Belgian/Dutch rounds has increased from 3 to 7

With Koksijde taking the final spot of the World Cup calendar, the schedule violates UCI regulations. No more than 50% of World Cup races should take place in 1 country, but still 7/12 World Cups will take place in Belgium.
Another sign that the international state of CX is dire

"Geen reden tot paniek": Belgian Cycling relativeert mager WK en maakt zich geen zorgen "dankzij gunstige trend" | sporza Met het ontbreken van een wereldtitel en slechts 2 medailles bij de jeugd was het WK veldrijden in Liévin geen schot in de roos voor de Belgische delegatie.

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BC: "The youth categories have become more international in recent years, but as soon as foreign riders join a team they leave CX."

The lack of top tier talents isnt a problem for Belgium, because a cyclocross career is only feasible for Belgians. Harsh reality of the current state of cyclocross.

Mixed relay 🤩🤩

It will only make the course more fun!

📍 Lievin

Treacherous conditions in Lievin 🇫🇷

Read up on the latest news ahead of the world championships!
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Sorry inside cyclocross subscribers, the newsreport will late this week. Travel to Benidorm far from smooth, as flight has been rerouted and delayed a number of times

Issam is backing Sweeck in Belgium, while I chose Nys. Vandeputte should have a good shot in these conditions! Del Grosso and Pieterse our picks in NL

Edition 23 of Inside Cyclocross is out! This week several stories leading up to the National Championships!

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An extra long edition of inside cyclocross to start the new year!
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Racing returns today with the Gavere World Cup!